The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
TOM WAITSThere’s no prayer like desire.
More Tom Waits Quotes
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Never have your wallet with you onstage. It’s bad luck. You shouldn’t play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
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New York forces you to be in endless surreal situations.
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I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars.
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Bill Hicks – blowtorch, excavator, truthsayer, and brain specialist. He will correct your vision. Others will drive on the road he built.
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There’s nothing that makes me laugh more than being in the situation where you’re not supposed to laugh. Funerals. People crying. Breaking down. Telling you their life. I’m the worst. I’m the worst at that.
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Songs are really just very interesting things to be doing with the air.
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Arithmetic arithmetock Turn the hands back on the clock How does the ocean rock the boat? How did the razor find my throat? The only strings that hold me here Are tangled up around the pier.
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But then I’m one of those guys that is still a bit afraid of the telephone, its implications for conversation. I still wonder if the jukebox might be the death of live music.
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When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.
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If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.
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Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll just make another one.
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You can drive out nature with a pitch fork But it always comes roaring back again.
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I like Thelonious Monk, he’s so gnarled, he’s like a piece of machinery that’s pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
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On my gravestone, I want it to say, “I told you I was sick.”
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I like my music with the rinds and the seeds and pulp left in.
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